American liberals dismissed the threat Hitler posed to Jews when he rose to power on a wave of economic populism combined with genocidal rhetoric. Democrats must avoid repeating this history.
Part of the problem is our refusal for decades to teach that the Nazi’s came for queer ppl, and trans people specifically first. The allies also freed everyone from camps and tossed queer men right back into jail for 20 years after surviving the camps. Hard to see parallels when queer history is suppressed. Thats why amy comey barret can say stupid shit implying trans ppl dont have a history of oppression and dave chappelles bigoted ass can act like trans ppl are brand new rather then having been fighting to have basic rights for 2000 years.
i have a distinct memory from school. my class was learning about the holocaust, and had just come from history class to go to science class. i think this was 7th or 8th grade. my science teacher was having a rough day, the class was chaotic.
some kids said some side comment that was homophobic about how gay people shouldn’t exist or something. i’m in the southern usa, this was just expected, most of us didn’t even blink. i don’t remember the details. our teacher got more visibly upset than i had ever seen her. she said something along the lines of, “you’re learning about the holocaust, right? did you know gay people were killed by the nazis?”
SILENCE. nobody had been told this. you could hear a pin drop in a class you usually had to scream over.
to this day i swear i remember someone saying quietly, “then maybe the nazis were right.” but i could be completely wrong about that part because nobody else reacted to it.
people act as though this hatred is new, all sorts of people do this. i have known since that moment that being queer made you hated.
trans people weren’t even part of this talk. i faced bullying for being trans later on in school. i was bullied so much from a young age that i legitimately didn’t recognize bullying, and didn’t realize how much i was bullied as a kid until being out of public school for years. what i faced wasn’t physical, so there was never any action taken by those who saw.
to me though, this specific instance is an example of what happens when we don’t remember history fully.
YES, TRUMP IS LIKE HITLER, BUT NOT IN THE WAYS YOU THINK
Beyond the caricatures lies a chilling blueprint: how both leaders exploited grievances, scapegoated the vulnerable, and built myths of strength to dismantle democracy.
We will not kill our selves. We will not accomplish their eradication for them. When they lose and are consigned to the trash heap, when orange hitler dies from a stroke or heart disease...WE will dance on his fucking grave.
I think its doubtful, Its a political failure screen problem overall. With all the lawsuits that are piling up against the administration (and we aren’t even 2 weeks into it), the failure analysis is going to become more and more clear, because for all their manufactured hate, they cant cover up how miserably they are falling to change things (and we all know they fucking wont). This is a republish of a piece I wrote a year ago. Same type of issue though. They don’t hate as much as they don’t want you too see behind the curtain. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/gop-transgender-hatred-dont-look
Part of the problem is our refusal for decades to teach that the Nazi’s came for queer ppl, and trans people specifically first. The allies also freed everyone from camps and tossed queer men right back into jail for 20 years after surviving the camps. Hard to see parallels when queer history is suppressed. Thats why amy comey barret can say stupid shit implying trans ppl dont have a history of oppression and dave chappelles bigoted ass can act like trans ppl are brand new rather then having been fighting to have basic rights for 2000 years.
i have a distinct memory from school. my class was learning about the holocaust, and had just come from history class to go to science class. i think this was 7th or 8th grade. my science teacher was having a rough day, the class was chaotic.
some kids said some side comment that was homophobic about how gay people shouldn’t exist or something. i’m in the southern usa, this was just expected, most of us didn’t even blink. i don’t remember the details. our teacher got more visibly upset than i had ever seen her. she said something along the lines of, “you’re learning about the holocaust, right? did you know gay people were killed by the nazis?”
SILENCE. nobody had been told this. you could hear a pin drop in a class you usually had to scream over.
to this day i swear i remember someone saying quietly, “then maybe the nazis were right.” but i could be completely wrong about that part because nobody else reacted to it.
people act as though this hatred is new, all sorts of people do this. i have known since that moment that being queer made you hated.
trans people weren’t even part of this talk. i faced bullying for being trans later on in school. i was bullied so much from a young age that i legitimately didn’t recognize bullying, and didn’t realize how much i was bullied as a kid until being out of public school for years. what i faced wasn’t physical, so there was never any action taken by those who saw.
to me though, this specific instance is an example of what happens when we don’t remember history fully.
edit: spelling
Great read. If only most Americans eyes were as open as yours, we might have a chance
YES, TRUMP IS LIKE HITLER, BUT NOT IN THE WAYS YOU THINK
Beyond the caricatures lies a chilling blueprint: how both leaders exploited grievances, scapegoated the vulnerable, and built myths of strength to dismantle democracy.
https://open.substack.com/pub/patricemersault/p/yes-trump-is-like-hitler-but-not?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
We will not kill our selves. We will not accomplish their eradication for them. When they lose and are consigned to the trash heap, when orange hitler dies from a stroke or heart disease...WE will dance on his fucking grave.
I think its doubtful, Its a political failure screen problem overall. With all the lawsuits that are piling up against the administration (and we aren’t even 2 weeks into it), the failure analysis is going to become more and more clear, because for all their manufactured hate, they cant cover up how miserably they are falling to change things (and we all know they fucking wont). This is a republish of a piece I wrote a year ago. Same type of issue though. They don’t hate as much as they don’t want you too see behind the curtain. https://thistleandmoss.com/p/gop-transgender-hatred-dont-look
I have yet to see a lawsuit challenging the day 1 EO that is resulting in trans people being unable to get passports at all.
It did finally happen, to anyone reading this. The ACLU filed a case several weeks ago.
Agree a million percent!!
The Democratic Party is a co-conspirator to the genocide that has begun against transgender people plain and simple.